Recent articles by Ashley Wearne

Policymakers confused about compost

Policymakers confused about compost

Food waste collection services have dominated the discussion around landfill emissions recently. With a lot of things happening in the organic waste sector, I have recently mapped and met with many small-scale composters around Australia, to get an idea of the contribution that decentralised organic waste processing could make towards landfill reduction targets. The pattern emerging is that rural communities take to composting quite well, while the number of composting communities in Sydney and Melbourne is quite small. Brisbane, however, is quite surprising.

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